The blackout strike is a global protest until multinational corporations end their mercantilist trade practices upon overexploited African, Latin American, and Asian nations. We are requesting that the United Nations impose sanctions on the multinational businesses involved for destabilizing and over-exploiting the Third World. The corporations have been known to use malicious methods to maintain control over countries resources, including the murder of leaders, activists, journalists, and even presidents via the use of economic hitmen.

We want these nations to be able to refine and purify their resources and export products and goods rather then export our raw materials then buy back products at inflated rates.

When isolated and reduced to their raw components, the products in an iPhone are not worth much, but combined as an iPhone is expensive, Almost 90% of the iPhone is comprised of Congolese minerals, but as Congo is at the bottom of the supply chain, it receives no benefit; 
Unrefined gold, iron, and crude oil have little value until they are refined and purified into petroleum, jewellery, and other items. If we keep the refining process in Africa/Global South rather than exporting the raw materials, our impoverished nations' economies will improve dramatically.

 

Any company intending to continue operations in Africa and the Global South must comply with the terms and conditions specified by the Blackout Strike Ambassadors; failure to do so will result in their removal and replacement with Local, Chinese or Russian corporations:
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industrialise the Global South, change the manufacturing process to remain in the countries you are exporting raw materials from, any added value from the manufacturing process will be invested into African and Global south economies, Instead of Congo to sell raw materials to these companies to refine in places Switzerland/China, we have them do the refining process in Africa and export the final products out of Africa. 

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1. End mercantilist trading patterns on all our resource’s. (Not just Cocoa like what Ghana is trying to do at the moment)

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2. Re invest a Large % of profit into developing African communities into education, housing and food programs

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3.Allow Africa and the Global South to Manufacture and sell products.

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4. Use African currencies when exporting all goods and services.

(this will prevent sanctions and the intentional destabilising of our currencies)

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5. Do not export RAW materials out of Africa or the Global South at all!.

6. Have natives to the regions being exploited working at every stage of the supply chain, not just the bottom, this will ensure those at the top respect the local area and do not exploit sacred land for mining or oil extraction. The local community select their representative every 3 months

This will avoid the deliberate destabilisation and pollution of local areas.

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We are no longer colonies, but independent states. 

If you wish to resume using our resources, you must ensure that not only the elite and foreign oligarchs benefit, but also the local populace. 

Without reform, these firms will always face opposition, and people will continue to boycott and oppose them.

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